Logan Paul video: more than 50,000 people sign petition calling for YouTube to delete his channel (independent.co.uk).
Having mocked and shared video of a suicide victim making Google shift uncomfortably from leg to leg as it did when reported taking ad revenue cash off of both extremist Islam and America’s own white supremacists (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk, 23rd Mar. 2017).
Mr Paul and his friends were visiting a Japanese forest known to be a suicide destination, when they stumbled across a man’s corpse hanging from a tree. He posted footage of the incident to the popular video sharing site. At one point, Mr Paul laughs in apparent disbelief. He went on to joke that he had never stood next to a dead body.
With Paul deleting the video himself with a “be better” apology and hope it won’t dent his net worth via his vlogging estimated at $15m (coed.com, Aug. 2017) too gravely, with of course Google taking its AdSense cut too.
YouTube has come under fire for allowing the video to be posted to its website. Many users have claimed it contravened the platform’s policy. Mr Paul not only runs his popular channel but worked with the YouTube to create an original film called The Thinning, as part of its YouTube Red offering.
For sure, had it been record or film copyright infringement or had it been a boob…
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And on the subject of the double standards and often just decidedly big fibs seemingly inherent in becoming socially popular and making people part with their money on the jumbo dating site the internet became:
Watchdog bans advert’s claim eHarmony is “scientifically proven” (theguardian.com).
Upholding a complaint about a billboard ad on London Underground, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the claim was misleading because eHarmony could not prove its service provided a greater chance of finding lasting love. The offending advertisement, which was seen by the complainant in July last year, said: “Step aside, fate. It’s time science had a go at love.”
“Science” in this case as it often is in advertising and modern culture in general taking the place that mysticism and indeed “fate” used to occupy.
But while many may smirk or cringe at “online dating”, if not swiping through what is surely the new picture-based bargain hunt future of dating, Tinder, the sociological “science” part is perhaps better rewarded focused on the uninhibited flirty conversations with virtual strangers on social media that anonymity, distance and improbability of those mundane elements of a relationship actually turning up on on the doorstep of your online identity provide: Love in the age of apps… it’s complicated—for profit at least (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk, 18 Feb. 2017)
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